Superconnections, Thom classes, and equivariant differential forms

DOI10.1016/0040-9383(86)90007-8zbMath0592.55015OpenAlexW1982687638WikidataQ105424549 ScholiaQ105424549MaRDI QIDQ1075641

Varghese Mathai

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-9383(86)90007-8

zbMATH Keywords

spin structureClifford algebraWeil algebrasphere bundletransgressionequivariant formscurvature matrixbundle of spinorssuper vector bundleThom class in K-theoryThom formvector bundle of even rank over a manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sphere bundles and vector bundles in algebraic topology (55R25) Stable classes of vector space bundles in algebraic topology and relations to (K)-theory (55R50) de Rham theory in global analysis (58A12) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40) Serre spectral sequences (55T10)

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